AMC Officially Orders Martial Arts Drama “Badlands” For TV Series

AMC, the channel that is home to The Walking Dead, has officially order Badlands, a martial arts drama based loosely on the Chinese tale Journey to the West, to go into production as a TV series.

The show is going to be produced by AMC Studios and distributed internationally by Entertainment One Television (eOne).

“We are incredibly excited to help Al and Miles, as well as Stacey and Michael from Double Feature to bring Badlands to life,” said Joel Stillerman, AMC’s executive vice president of original programming, production and digital content. “This creative team has so much expertise in bringing a fresh take to classic genres from their film and television experience, and their take on martial arts will be no exception. Along with a beautiful story, they’ve also assembled the A-Team of martial arts fight choreography in Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung.”

Sounds like this could be something.  We haven’t had too many premises like this, so when it debuts in late 2015 or early 2016 according to Variety, it’ll be one to keep an eye on.

Thank you to: Connor MacLeod